Twitter Getting the Once over from Google and Microsoft

October 13th, 2009 |

Twitter Getting the Once over from Google and Microsoft
-by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s,

In a recent article posted on the New York Times by Marshal Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, he went into detail about the giants (Google & Microsoft) wanting to buy access to Twitter full array of messages and shared links.

But they are beginning to believe that Twitter may be less valuable than we might think, and that both of these mega giants in the industry have been talking with a variety of real-time web companies in readiness for the upcoming Real-Time Web Summit taking place this week. (Sorry Registration is now closed, but you can read up on it here.)

According to Google and Microsoft, they state:

First, there aren’t really that many links that get passed through Twitter. The service may be the most visible example of real-time communication but there’s a whole lot more going on around the web in real time outside of Twitter. Twitter may see between 3 and 5 million links shared through it each day. Those are heavily biased towards the relatively small number of active content creators on the site and much of it is spam or republished RSS feeds.

Marshal mentioned some other Real-Time Search companies that they have spoken with that far exceed Twitter’s search capabilities and we’ve listed them below for your future investigation.

1) OneRiot
2) Faroo
3) Wowd
4) AllVoices
5) Evri

Feel free to go ahead a read the article here. I’d love to hear your thoughts about the matter. (If you dare.)

Until next time, have a wonderful day